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The Child-Labor Decision
Powell, Thomas Reed | June 22, 1918 issue

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The article focuses on the Federal Child Labor law. The law annulled by the vote of a single judge did not forbid the employment of children. It prohibited the shipment across State lines of goods from factories where children worked. Manufacturers whose goods were sold only in their home state were immune from its terms. If they sold only to their neighbors and disobeyed no law of their state, they were free from legal fault. The opinion of the majority does not hint that the U.S. Constitution secures to employers the right to use the labor of children.

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CHILD labor -- Law & legislation; CHILDREN -- Legal status, laws, etc.; LABOR laws & legislation; CHILDREN'S rights; INDUSTRIES -- United States; UNITED States
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